Moving from California to Chattanooga usually means trading a $900,000 median home for a $360,000 one, keeping the paycheck you earn in wages instead of sending part of it to the state, and getting mountains, a river, and real yards in the deal. Californians who make the move tend to say the same thing a year later: they wish they'd done it sooner. I've lived in Chattanooga my whole life. Here's the straight version of what you're signing up for. The price difference is real